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In my new book in a chapter on interfaces I describe how the auto industry is years ahead of the software industry in non-keyboard, mouse driven user interfaces. Some of the haptic, audio and other interfaces have been adapted to a car for the blin…

The iPhone antenna drama has just reached the stage of sublime comedy. Apparently, they’re now admitting their algorithm for calculating how many bars to show has been wrong since the beginning. They’ll be revising the software so that you see fewer bars most of the time. I have a bunch of friends with non-iPhones who hate […]

The cloud is great. Your stuff is stored in only one place. No copies in email attachments, no copies on your laptop, your desktop, and your server. Make a change and there’s no need to send out updates, because it’s always in one place. Right?Right. But delete it in one place and it’s gone. Gone. […]

A visitor to our office earlier this week brought up his outsider view of Chicago as a city where organized labor was decimating the conference business. $444 per hour union forklift drivers will do that to you, I suppose. His observation was correct, however, given the recent flight of conferences from the city due to […]

Our sister-site MetalMiner ran an article yesterday citing some pretty serious — and historically accurate — leading indicative consumer data that suggests the US will soon face the prospects of a double-dip recession as Q2 revisions and Q3 GDP data come up. You can read the full story here. Lisa Reisman, who authored the piece, […]